Moved to Rawlins, Wyoming

Yesterday we were on the road by 8:15am. knowing we had a very long day ahead of us.  We drugged up Buddy (boy, I hate doing that) and Pache took care of him, tucking him into the back hiding spot that Buddy likes to go to.  Pache stayed with him for about 4 hours.  Good boy.

Moab, Utah is near those LaSal Mountains in distance, headed there

Interesting place, stories it could tell

Abajos Mountains - in Utah, we could see these from Dolores

Dropping down into the Canyonlands and Moab

Church Rock 

Looked like a blob of stone

Wilson Arch

We wanted to put a lot of distance behind us, trying to get more north and then east.  Only problem was that there are no interstate highways from Dolores, Colorado to any of the larger cities in Wyoming such as Laramie, Rawlins, or Cheyenne.  Just have to wiggle back and forth on roads.

Moab, the ATV/UTV capital of the world

First went north west out of Dolores, the LaSal Mountains in the horizon was our marker for getting to Moab, Utah.  Passed through Moab and when we got to the Arches National Park entrance - was backed up, looked like hours of wait.  Wow.  Continued on till we came to Interstate 70 and headed east.  Got back into Colorado, headed to Rifle and then took backroads north along the western edge of the Rocky Mountains.  Into Craig, then continued north.  Crossed into Wyoming and then got to Interstate 80 and headed east to Rawlins.  Long long day.  By the time we pulled into Rawlins, we had gone 484 miles, the farthest we have ever done in one day.

Crossed the Colorado River in Moab 

Long, long lines of traffic to get into Arches NP

The red rock is stunning

And back into Colorado

Interstate 70 follows the Colorado River for many miles

Jumping on to Interstate 70

Many vineyards in Craig

Colorado River

We had stopped in Craig, Colorado to tank up and decided to disconnect the car.  I drove the car around the town for about 5 minutes, enough time for Dave to gas up the RV, came back and hooked up the car and ran it through it's pre-towing procedures, then off we went.  We are not supposed to have to car hooked to the RV for more than 8 hours.  So, when we stopped we had already gone 6 hours.  Bought us lots of time to continue on.

Climbed up and over 3 passes while in Rockies

Dodged rain storms all day, just spitted on the windows a couple of times.  We could see that rain had just fallen in many places, lots of standing water.  The RV did great, as well as our 2 furry kids.  Had to really watch for the pronghorn - they were just waking up and many of them along the road.  

Weird stones - looked like dinasour backbones 

We see you and all your buddies!

We climbed up and over 3 passes while traveling in Colorado.  And crossed the Continental Divide 2 times of which are near here to Rawlins, and crossed the Immigrant trail near Rawlins at Separation Peak.  In the east we can see the Laramie Mountains which are snow covered.  Very desolate but pretty scenery.  Today we are exhausted.  We will stay here until Friday morning and then head on Interstate 80 until we get somewhere near the middle of Nebraska.  About 400 miles closer.